Media goes all in for Biden

BIDEN STAYS HOME, MEDIA CAMPAIGNS

DEBATE COMMISSION DROPS FOREIGN POLICY QUESTIONS

With two weeks left until the election the media has gone all in a coordinated effort to elect Joe Biden. They have dropped all pretense of any objectivity, even if there was very little left. It is hard to believe that the media will ever be able to recover their credibility after the last 4 years.

They only want to discuss the Corona virus, more case, more hospitalizations, more deaths, all because of Trump. The virus must be polling as the top negative issue for Trump. There is no mention of issues, like immigration, trade, foreign policy or taxes. The debate commission has dropped all issues to be discussed except the virus and civil unrest, which they are attempting to spin to be the fault of Trump and white supremacists.

This past week social media stepped up to protect Biden from any negative news. It has gone as far as to block Trump and members of his administration. Blocking of conservative commentary has been going on for some time, but now is near a total embargo. Even this blog, which is admitted to favor conservative positions has been totally blocked for months. It is blocked, by Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Mix, and Pinterest. The first occurrences were for several days or a week. This occurred with articles about Michael Bloomberg and Jeffery Epstein. Then several months ago it was totally blocked on social media. Any inquiry responds that site does not conform to community standards. There has never been any advocacy for violence, illegal behavior, porn or anything that is in their community standards guidelines. It appears they have also gone all in on censorship and effecting the outcome of the political debate in this country. It may be the biggest threat to self government this country has ever experienced.

It seems that even though Biden has been leading in most of the polls, there is a certain desperation in their behavior.  Memories of 2016 are still waking these people up at night. I recall exactly 2 weeks before the election in 2016, MSNBC was speculating that Trump may be the first presidential candidate to not carry a single state in that election. Trump is actually polling better this year than in 2016. 

Polling is to me now a questionable practice. Unlike the 70's 80's and 90's and even early 2000's many homes no longer have land lines. If they do, they have an answering machine and just return calls. Cell phone numbers often are not available, and if they are, again often screened by the owners.  In conversations with people doing polling and campaigns who make phone calls, they are lucky to have a 10% answer rate. Digging deeper it appears this is mostly elderly people with land lines, and possibly lonely, and willing to talk to anyone.

In two weeks maybe this election will be over. The repercussions will go on much longer. Things will never be the same. You can also bet we will not descend into an era of peace and tranquility, no matter the outcome. This election is just another battle in the war over the direction of this country. I suspect that unless you are relatively young, you will not see the final outcome.